Run to Failure BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Name: Run to Failure BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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ISBN: 9780393081626

ISBN-10: 0393081621

ISBN-13: 9780393081626

Edition: 2012

Authors: Abrahm Lustgarten

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Two decades ago, British Petroleum, a venerable and storied corporation, was running out of oil reserves. Along came a new CEO of vision and vast ambition, John Browne, who pulled off one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in history.BP relentlessly fired employees and cut costs. It skipped safety procedures, pumped toxic chemicals back into the ground, and let equipment languish. For a while the strategy worked, making BP one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Then it all began to unravel, in felony convictions for environmental crimes and in one deadly accident after another. Employees and regulators warned that the problems, unfixed, were getting out of control, that…

Book details

List price: $29.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 410
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.96" long x 0.14" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Abrahm Lustgraten is a reporter for ProPublica. He covers energy and environmental topics, including natural gas, renewable energy, water resources, and energy policy. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.